"If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless."

"Mrs. Lane and I took our journey towards Bristol, resolving to lie at a place called Long Marson, in the vale of Esha…"

"We saw, that no Expedient would be entertain'd but that of a total Exclusion, which We had so often declar'd, was a P…"

"He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it."

"Let not poor Nelly starve."

"A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds..."

"There is no king in the world, who can so experimentally testify of God's providence and goodness; neither is there a…"

"It is practically impossible to separate the failure of the Restoration Settlements from the personality of King Char…"

"Above all, Charles II saw the need for healing after a quarter-century of bitter conflict. At Breda he had promised f…"

"Better than a play!"